22 September 2014

Gozo: 18 fascinating facts

1. Edward Lear described Gozo’s coastal landscape as "pomskizillious
and gromphiberous". The Pomskizillious Museum of Toys can be found in
Xaghra, a village that is thought to be one of the earliest inhabited parts
of the island.

2. The island has already appeared in several films, including Single-Handed,
from 1953, and Inseminoid, a 1981 UK horror.

3. Residents of Gozo – there are 37,000 - are called Gozitans.

4. Despite its small population, and tiny proportions – it is just eight miles
long and four miles wide – there are 46 churches on the island.
...read on.